“It spreads quickly and kills within hours. This will be really worrying al-Qaeda.”

[seemslikeadream]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2146286.ece

“It spreads quickly and kills within hours. This will be really worrying al-Qaeda.”




Control of Communicable Diseases In Man

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/087553077X?ie=UTF8&tag=urbansurvivar-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=087553077X


about the 'black death'

"Incubation period - From 2 to 6 days in bubonic plague, 2 to 4 days in pneumonic plague; may be shorter, rarely longer.

about the Sun article:

"Period of communicability - Bubonic plague is not directly transmitted from person to person except through terminal plague pneumonia. Fleas may remain infected for days or weeks or months under suitable conditions of temperature and humidity, or may clear themselves of infection.

[madrchsod]

1. it`s the Sun

i`m waiting for the exclusive batboy report

[Holly_Hobby]

2. Picked up by the Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/algeria/4287469/Black-Death-kills-al-Qaeda-operatives-in-Algeria.html

[seemslikeadream]

6. Thank you

for understanding why I posted it

[Raskolnik]

15. Can you explain what SLAD's point is?

S/he seems to think you understand.

[Raskolnik]

3. Wow, you found a scientifically inaccurate passage in an article in the Sun.

Do you want to alert the State Department, or should I?

[seemslikeadream]

8. Did you miss this part that I posted with it?

Control of Communicable Diseases In Man

[Raskolnik]

10. No, and it doesn't make your post any more coherent.

Why don't you just state what your point is?

[seemslikeadream]

11. Try something novel and think for yourself

[Raskolnik]

12. I think that you lack any cogent point in this OP.

[seemslikeadream]

14. whatever

[Raskolnik]

19. Should I post any inaccuracies I find in the Chicago Sun Times here as well?

Do I have to put an accompanying cut & paste along with the errors I find?

[seemslikeadream]

21. ........

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1294627774

[Raskolnik]

23. More cut & paste. Still no attempt to state what your point is.

Why is that?

[seemslikeadream]

18. oh looky how many other "papers" are reporting this

all with the reputation of the Sun?

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1294627774


http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/01/19/Report_Plague_killing_al-Qaida_terrorists/UPI-88691232390982/
"This is the deadliest weapon yet in the war against terror. Most of the terrorists do not have the basic medical supplies needed to treat the disease," one security source told the British publication, although it wasn't reported how the deadly outbreak started. "It spreads quickly and kills within hours. This will be really worrying al-Qaida."

[Raskolnik]

22. So??? You still haven't even tried to say what your point is.

Give it a try.

[juno jones]

4. The great 'Black Death' of the 14th century

had it's origins somewhere in that general area.

War and trading spread it worldwide as it was on the silk road which was hotly contested by the ancestors of today's tribal chieftans. In the 14th century it took several years to make it to europe, nowadays, who knows....

edit to add: Many years ago there was a pretty good horror novel which used the threat of a black death outbreak in NYC as it's premise. It was very well researched and very frightening.

another edit: Story is originating from Algeria, but they are worried about cross-infection with camps in Afghanistan. And I read the telegraph article, not the Sun.

[LeftishBrit]

5. The Sun?

It's an exceptionally unreliable British Murdoch rag. The term 'Sun readers' in England implies RW-ers with particularly low IQs. If Dubya were English, he'd be a Sun reader.

You have the RW talk shows, and we have the tabloids.

[seemslikeadream]

9. I guess you missed this part also?

Control of Communicable Diseases In Man

[Sanctified]

7. Would be pretty funny if Mother Nature easily stomped out something like al-Qaeda where Bush...

spent Billions and failed.

[Ex Lurker]

17. I doubt it's Nature. More likely biological warfare and a war crime n/t

[Ex Lurker]

20. I posted this yesterday and it was widely dismissed

now it seems to be getting some traction. It would not surprise me in the least for this administration to stoop to another war crime on its way out the door.

[Raskolnik]

24. Would it surprise you if this was the result of a failed, half-assed attempt at biological warfare

by the people it is killing?

[McCamy Taylor]

13. The antibiotics are cheap and easy to come by. Saudi Arabia will ship them some.

[demigoddess]

16. when is everybody going to understand that these 'pandemics' are NOT going to happen!!!!

We have come a long way since those days. There is such a thing as "herd immunity" . Read up on it and see that the likelihood of another Black Plague or Spanish flu is a remote possibility and something they use as scare tactics and filler for news. Anyone hear of the Swine flu epidemic of the 70's. NEVER HAPPENED.

[kimmerspixelated]

25. Touche'!

[MilesColtrane]

26. I wouldn't bet against a type of organism that has survived for three and a half billion years.

I take it that you're assuming a vaccine will be developed quickly, mass produced, and widely distributed before a deadly virus spreads. HIV was first recognized 28 years ago, and there's still no vaccine for it.
If HIV were less difficult to contract it could have easily killed 2 billion versus the 25 million toll to date.